“Salvation is easy for us, because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of salvation in my life is difficult. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, in effect, “Now you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me, even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful.” (Oswald Chambers, excerpted from a daily devotional: https://utmost.org/modern-classic/what-do-you-make-of-this/)
Oh how true this is – It’s like bringing home a new puppy if you have a muddy yard. They can be all nice and clean but keeping them clean is the hard part!
We come to God and He cleans us up, but then we have to go back and live in this dirty earthly world working out our salvation day by day and trying to keep the filth of the world off of us.
Dead Man Walking 
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